Sun loungers

Sun loungers are a diverse product group comprising outdoors recliners, daybeds and chaises longues. Found in hotels, beaches and private gardens, they all have something in common: namely, they enable summer relaxation and symbolise carefree holidays.

One of the archetypal sun loungers is a folding armchair with a canvas seat, such as the colourful ‘Cabin Basic Sun Lounger’ by Weishäupl. Another near-ubiquitous variation is a daybed with a adaptable backrest and a pair of wheels included within the base. Philippe Starck’s pared-down ‘Rayn Beach chair’ sun lounger or Oxley’s Furniture’s delicately decorative and traditional ‘Luxor Double lounger’ are examples of this type. Alfonso Gallego’s ‘Arena sun bed’ by Point takes on a traditional form of a wicker-woven daybed with plump canvas cushions and rounded corners, but it is made from synthetic fibre to increase its lifespan.

David Trubridge’s gestural ‘Sling’ is an exercise in simplicity; a curved seat made of wooden strips that can rock on the ground. Paola Navone’s ‘Low Lita’ for Slide is a robust sun lounger made from rotational-moulded polyethylene, while Qui est Paul?’s ‘Organic’ looks as though it has been sculpted from a rock and subsequently smoothed into a sleek chaise. And while Zanotta’s ‘Lama | 1005’ sun lounger, designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, is a strongly geometric design on a steel rod-base, featuring an armrest that extends into a privacy screen, Erik Nyberg’s and Gustav Ström’s ‘WAVE’ for Royal Botania is a self-supporting hammock with an arching canopy, all combined within an elliptical frame, mounted on a single foot.